“The problem with this is he cannot address the gap in parenting.” ( Daisyjane69)
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If every Purssian-style school were to close tomorrow ( government and private) the same children who are getting and education today would get one tomorrow.
Why?
Answer: Because 90% of what a child learns is due to the afterschooling done by the parents and child himself at the kitchen table or at his desk.
Honestly....Where are the controlled studies that separate what is learned due to afterschooling from the learning that is acquired in the the typical Priussian-style classroom? Nearly daily, I am on Internet message boards asking that question. No educator or professor education has ever provided me with the studies.
So?...Again how much learning is **specifically due to aftershooling?
It seems INSANE to me that we spend sooooooo much money on education and we don't even know **who** is doing the hard work of teaching. Is it the parent, the child, or the Prussian-style teacher? If we really knew the answer to this perhaps our schools would look a lot different.
If most learning is due to afterschooling then perhaps it would be better for the academically successful child to spent more time at home and less time at school. Those children from dysfunctional families might do better in institutional schools that attempted to compensate for poor parenting. KIPP schools seem to be effective in this.
Single moms, school breakfasts, school dinners, welfare, healthcare, and daycare, are all provided to the children of the state. They are now exceeding the birth rate of married parents.
That is the gap liberals want to overcome. The children of married heterosexual parents who work to make a living, are the demographic group to finish off.